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12/19/2012 11:11AM

Fiscal Cliff Countdown: What Will Paul Ryan Do?

Notable budget hawk and former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan has been keeping quiet as cliff talks narrow and his support (or lack of it) is seen a crucial to cliff negotiations. Patrick O'Connor reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.

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... all the squawking SATC all the talking politicians one person's voice has not been heard ... Paul Ryan ... been very quiet about the fiscal cliff what he think Howley vote ... could be critical ... Patrick O'Connor is down with the CDC think actually on Capitol Hill today Patrick ... why Paul Ryan been so quiet on this one the budget negotiations ... everything that you actually get a quick round of interview with Tony dial it back to a company that the ... baby in it otherwise ... so anyway that you can be one of the board ... of all members of Congress to keep that in the hallway any longer the whole interview to think ... in part because they ... want to maintain its stature as being of the group of Republican vice presidential nominee ... I'm not a lot of members of Congress but at a cash and I think adopted in the car ... and don't want to preserve that ... on the other hand is the really difficult though ... some ... of the PC thing to do ... whatever with ... ambitions for twenty sixteen would probably be to vote against the package that comes to the fore ... because that way you know you not and ... that the conservative activists who can't make up a disproportionate ... walk into a Republican primary electorate ... on the other hand you a better team player ... I ... think he had been working really closely with the speaker the house they ... found that the terms of the deal with the White House turned ... up because of that I think you can feel a lot of older or whatever the speaker bring the book for ... what to do just that hard it is ... not the problem can be a lot of conservative faction which the hero of the better ... I mean he is he's a rising star in the party mean that the vice ... presidential nod obviously ... how critical is his abode I mean could keep repeating the whole thing ... just as he speaks out against it ... you know enjoy art said how much sway one member had over any other but I you know that we have heard in the story Anadarko member who said it agreed ... to vote in the most important ... it ... entered into the endorsement to give them the conservative defections if ... you go in again this ... can be very easy for a lot compared to that point the finger at them and they can with that and I can't be either on you know he's running for president on the upper primary in two years ... the committee it would vote for me so ... I think the speaker needs to support probably more than anything else and you know what I heard was that it would be to support him ... it can bring that thing before what ... they're expecting to bring up up up and Democrats wouldn't think they will tell the speaker keen to get a majority of the majority ... that accumulated in debt to buy it all right ... I've ... lost ... one news story ... DNC has not been speaking is intended to remain in use in the hallways there ... but he has been involved in the negotiations right ... yet ... the peak of her very early on me doubt that anyone before the election with over the long enough to fill the budget committee will give you with her that they have to secure permanent and private but enough to get what the speaker did with that ... he invited them that they went into the lead in fashion when ever there in Washington who ... run the part of that one of the top fifth of the budget committee has been working really closely with Republican staffer to negotiate with the White House ... they've really been over backwards to try and call to profit ... he signed his name to deal with taper off but the truth and that out there and all that that that operated ... billion dollars in tax revenue ... important thing in mind though that ... he would support the upper teacher call to raise tax revenue but it did it very ... much different thing to say ... that portray actually just given that the kind of the printable composed of the Republican orthodoxy of the last three or four decades ... I think that the bureau an awful lot of people fall to her at ... GC appreciated thank you ...